Sunday, November 30, 2025

November Vignettes

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See also the previous Wild Reed November 2025 posts: • November Song • Omar Fateh: A Mayor Who Will “Meet the Moment” • All...

Advent’s Timeless Invitation to Imagine the Impossible

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T oday we are invited to imagine the impossible. We are invited to abandon our normal way of perceiving and look through grace -filled eyes...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Diana Trask: “Miss Country Soul”

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Diana Trask ’s “ Oh Boy (The Mood I’m In) ” is a memorable song from my childhood in 1970s Australia. It was a popular song on the radio an...

A Skylight View

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See also the previous Wild Reed posts: • Instant Winter • Time to Go Inwards • To Dream, to Feel, to Listen • A Sacred Journey, a Pil...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Michael Jochum on the Thanksgiving Message That Had No Heart

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T here is something especially obscene about a man with no conscience sending a midnight Thanksgiving message to the nation, a holiday liter...

Jason Duchin on the “Trumpian White Supremacist Lie” That Must Be Confronted

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T rump and his ilk, in their ruthless attempt to rewrite American mythology, want to cast the immigrant as the enemy. The outsider. The con...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

The Power of Dance

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D ance is incredibly powerful because it is the physical representation of music. Music and its harmonies are the melodic representation ...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Quote of the Day

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T here is no socialism that’s possible inside a fundamentally capitalist party [like the Democratic Party] and there’s no revolutionaty pote...

Instant Winter

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Writes Paul Huttner of MPR’s Updraft blog: W elcome to instant winter in Minnesota and the entire Upper Midwest. Our first real wide...

Tony Pentimalli on Marjorie Taylor Greene: “A Demagogue Brought Down by Her Own Fire”

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Political analyst and social commentator Tony Pentimalli has written one of the best commentaries I’ve read so far on Republican representat...